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Monitors all round!
Interesting developments on the policy front, which we were asked to comment on in a follow-up article by the BBCs' Mark Kinver (which you can read here).
The Labour Party has announced new plans to provide 'real-time electricity monitors' to all households who request one. Electricity suppliers will be required to provide the displays free of charge to all households. According to Labour 'the plan could cut UK carbon dioxide emissions by 400,000 tonnes a year by 2010, equivalent to taking about 100,000 cars off the road.'
We'll be keeping an eye on how this one pans out...
Read more...Onzo reveal the shape of mass-market product
Congratulations to Onzo, the smart energy company spun off from More Associates just one year ago, who have released much-anticipated images of the Onzo product that will shortly be dropping through the letterboxes of energy-savers. The smart energy-saving kit is designed to be easy-to-use, attractive, and efficient; all so that people can save energy and carbon as easily as possible. Have a look at their press release here. Onzo products will be available in mid-2009 through Scottish and Southern Energy in the UK, and through retail and energy suppliers globally.
Read more...Ariel asks customers to do their washing at 30 degrees
In the first of a new kind of proposition in the mass market – one that we expect to see a lot more of over the coming months – Ariel launch a very cool campaign to get people to turn down their washing machines. This could begin to show that behavioural energy/ carbon marketing works, which is essential for most non-energy businesses to join in with the carbon debate. With TV, web and print applications, P&G are building green credibility and home-sense for Ariel by inviting people to change their behaviour, and strongly leading everyone to infer a key product benefit (washes better at lower temperatures, saving you money), while never actually stating it!
Read more...Onzo wins 2009 Red Dot design award
Onzo, the smart energy company started and incubated by More Associates, has won a 2009 Red Dot Design award for the Energy Saving Kit, the only product of its type to receive this honour. The Red Dot award is considered by some the most prestigious product design award in the world. Onzo has had great design at its heart from its beginnings in 2003, when More Associates first started considering how design could help people to save energy.
The Onzo design team have worked tirelessly to bring Onzo to production, and this award is a well earned recognition of their efforts. The smart energy-saving kit is designed to be easy-to-use, attractive, and efficient - so that people can save energy and carbon as easily as possible. Onzo products will be available in mid-2009 through Scottish and Southern Energy in the UK, and through retail channels and energy suppliers globally.
Read more...More Associates feature in Future London exhibition
Future London is a GLA project that helps Londoners to make their city sustainable, and shows how design and planning can help. The project was launched with a large exhibition in East London designed to show the public that sustainable living is both easy and affordable. The exhibition goes beyond describing the sustainable lifestyle choices that people can make by showing the consequences of these choices, making it easy to see the link between individual actions and local, national and global impacts.
Read more...DECC select CarbonCulture behaviour-change programme
Today an extremely thorough procurement process came to a successful close when the Department of Energy and Climate Change selected More Associates to deliver an innovative programme that brings together realtime information with design-for-behaviour change. The project will create tools to deliver behavioural efficiency in DECC’s London headquarters, and that will have ready application across the Government estate.
Read more...Python/Django web developer
More Associates is a ground-breaking sustainable design practice based in Central London. We work with corporations, governments and NGOs, using design, technology and user-centred research to address the most exciting social and environmental challenges of our time.
You are an experienced web developer who loves building rich, compelling web applications that make the most of web technologies. You have excellent Python skills, are strong in back-end web development, and have substantial experience using Django in a production environment beyond. Ideally, you are equally strong in client-side technologies, and you know your box model hacks and image replacement techniques.
You believe in documentation, test-driven development and are happy using collaboration tools such as SVN and GIT, and running and deploying against release schedules. You are comfortable with the user-centred design approach and feel that the end users of your work are the most important drivers in the development process. You are technically agnostic, and open standards will normally be your first choice. You relish being a key part of a committed, fast growing team.
Ideally, like us you are passionate about creating social and environmental benefit through your work.
If you are this person please send an email with your CV to work@moreassociates.com
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